3D Printer Creates Functioning Keyboard with No Assembly (Video)

In today’s Stratasys blog video we have for you another ‘first’ from the world of multi-material 3D printing.

This time we’ve created a functioning keyboard using the Objet Connex 3D printer. Using the system’s multi-material 3D printing capability, our keyboard designer Arnon Gratch (who works right here at Stratasys HQ) was able to create the true feel of functioning keys using a combination of rigid and rubber-like materials.

Remarkably, using this technology means there is no need to assemble the individual keys into the board. Instead, the entire keyboard is ‘grown’ as a single homogeneous unit that nevertheless retains its independently functioning key elements!

Objet Connex technology is capable of jetting both rigid and rubber-like materials at the same time